Iaroslav Lakhin
Unity Tech Lead at Nexters ($GDEV)
Russia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIaroslav Lakhin is a Unity Tech Lead with 8 years of game development experience leading teams, designing architecture, and shipping performant Unity projects across mobile and cross-platform titles. He has scaled and managed engineering teams up to 10 people while contributing within product organizations of up to 100, combining hands-on implementation of game mechanics with system-level optimization. His career includes progressive leadership roles at studios such as Nexters, X-Labs, Belka Games and 8floor, where he moved from engine porting to leading architecture and performance efforts. Iaroslav habitually explores new technological and architectural approaches, applying that curiosity to practical trade-offs in production games. Based in Russia with a formal background in Informatics and Computer Engineering, he brings both academic grounding and a decade-long practical track record in Unity pipeline modernization. Colleagues would note his mix of technical depth and team stewardship, often stepping into both coding and architectural strategy.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Informatics and Computer Engineering at Academy of Marketing and Socially-Information Technologies
Russian, English
Github Skills (30)
dll10
steamworks9
allocation9
thread9
unity3d9
steam9
async-await8
sdk8
multicore8
debug8
gameplay8
csharp8
async7
console7
okhttp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
YLahin/YL.Foundation
Aug 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:9 releases, 126 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
Creobit-Ltd/Creobit.Backend.Sandbox
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:54 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
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